566 SEYFFARTH—CHAMPOLLION AND RENOUF. 
had first demonstrated that the Egyptians nf the 
Planets by the figures of the 7 Cabiri, and the Signs of the 
Zodiac by their 12 great The same friend of f trath, as 
soon as I had published a Uleratagiome ’s Translation of the Fla- 
minian Obelisk, said publicly, that a s Obelisk had 
not been discovered by me, but by the great master, Cham- 
sayy although he knew that Champollion had been in 
e twice, and had examined, during six years, the engraved 
Plates of that Obelisk, and that finally Champollion’s disci- 
ples had published a ‘totally wrong translation of it. The 
same is the case with Mr. Brugsch, at Berlin, the very young 
but_true scion of Lepsius, who once discovered the normal 
arithmetic figures which had been, nine years before, pub- 
lished in my Alphabeta Genuina, and the syllabic characters 
of the Demotic pore ng, of which the existence and values 
were also previ ously discovered and published by myself. 
That is natural, for “similis simili gau udet.” I wonder, only, 
at that nobleman, Vicomte de Rougé, Champollion’s succes- 
sor in the Louvre, although he is the warm friend of Brugse 
and Lepsius 
pious ancestors were so much averse to all kinds of 
literary robbery that they invented a peculiar name for it, 
agiarism ; at present, things are changed, and the 
ta — Hillcule the idea that those gentlemen Hear if they 
e the same — es, after m “by their own in- 
as CE (while t he — is proved); a lee to 
own 
Ke ans act of homage to him ee lawful owner;” “to give 
him the glory of the invention (of the = pabie: ‘alphabet nd 
the Egyptians).” I never have affected “ homage” and glo- 
- tlemen, I say, were bound, as soon as they abandoned Cham 
pollion’s fundamental rule, “no hieroglyphic figare © 
a syllable,” and as soon n as they copied my Alp habet, 01 
_ “discovered by their own investigation” a sa of chee 
characters which had — been discovered, to aval 2° 
: Indeed, the Rey. Barbuda Le Le ‘Page ve many oe" of the Catholie 
amy of pres ‘instead of — noble Tri ‘ 
ich t k, the Donia cede be fl 
1ed to advocate — able sp age 
undred youths, who sooner oF reo 
moral pean: held By “their acpi 
, to malign truths by the instrametr” 
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